SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS
ANNOUNCES FULL CAST FOR
OEDIPUS
CREATED BY ROBERT ICKE, AFTER SOPHOCLES
STARRING MARK STRONG AND LESLEY MANVILLE
3000 ADDITIONAL TICKETS JUST RELEASED
Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP) today announces the full cast for the West End run of Oedipus, a new adaptation created by Robert Icke after Sophocles.
Joining the previously announced Mark Strong (Oedipus) and Lesley Manville (Jocasta) are Samuel Brewer (Teiresias), Michael Gould (Creon), Sara Hazemi (Lichas/Understudy Antigone), Gary McDonald (Driver), Bhasker Patel (Corin), Phia Saban (Antigone), Jordan Scowen (Eteocles), June Watson (Merope) and James Wilbraham (Polyneices), with Jim Creighton (Ensemble/Understudy Oedipus & Creon), Derek Elroy (Ensemble/Understudy Corin, Teiresias & Driver), Celia Nelson (Ensemble/ Understudy Jocasta & Merope) and Jake Rory (Ensemble/Understudy Polyneices, Eteocles & Lichas) completing the cast.
Tickets for the strictly limited run at Wyndham’s Theatre are on sale now, with a further 3000 tickets just released across the run, including the front Stalls. Sonia Friedman Productions is also offering 1000 tickets at £30 exclusively for those aged 30 and under across the run, reflecting their ongoing commitment to ticket accessibility within the arts. For more details visit oedipustheplay.com/ticket-information.
The creative team is Hildegard Bechtler (Set Design), Wojciech Dziedzic (Costume Design), Natasha Chivers (Lighting Design), Tom Gibbons (Sound Design), Tal Yarden (Video Design) and Julia Horan CDG (Casting Director).
Behind every great man is a great woman.
Election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change.
Starring the internationally renowned, multi-award-winning Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Sophocles’ epic tragedy is transformed into an essential, explosive human thriller.
After his revelatory Oresteia, visionary director Robert Icke (1984, The Doctor) reimagines another Ancient Greek tragedy, bringing the secrets of the past bursting into the present.
Oedipus opens on Tuesday 15 October, with previews from Friday 4 October 2024, and runs until Saturday 4 January 2025.
Icke’s production was originally produced in Dutch by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and was presented at the Edinburgh International Festival.
CAST BIOGRAPHIES
Mark Strong (Oedipus)
Multi-award-winning actor Mark Strong returns to the stage. He previously appeared in A View from the Bridge (Young Vic, West End and Broadway – Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play and Tony Award nomination); The Red Barn, Closer, Death of a Salesman, Murmuring Judges, Fuente Ovejuna, Napoli Milionaria, King Lear and Richard III (National Theatre); Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya (Donmar Warehouse – Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor); Speed the Plow (New Ambassadors Theatre); The Iceman Cometh (Almeida Theatre); The Thickness of Skin and The Treatment (Royal Court Theatre); Hess is Dead, The Plantagenets and The Man Who Came To Dinner (RSC).
His television credits include Temple (also series Executive Producer); Deep State; Low Winter Sun; The Long Firm (Broadcast Guild Award for Best Actor and BAFTA nomination); Prime Suspect; Fields of Gold; The Jury; Anna Karenina; Our Friends in the North and the forthcoming Dune: Prophecy (HBO Max).
An acclaimed film actor, he recently appeared in The Critic with Ian McKellen; Dead Shot with Felicity Jones; Nocebo with Eva Green; Murder Mystery 2 with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston (Netflix) and will next appear on screen in various projects including The End We Start From with Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch; Shadow Force opposite Omar Sy and Kerry Washington and Atlas opposite Jennifer Lopez.
His other film credits include Todd Field’s Tár with Cate Blanchett; Sam Mendes’ 1917; Miss Sloane with Jessica Chastain; Cruella alongside Emma Stone; The Imitation Game with Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley; The Kingsman films with Taron Egerton and Colin Firth; Before I Go To Sleep with Nicole Kidman;Thomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Gary Oldman; Peter Weir’s The Way Back; John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard; Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood with Russell Crowe; Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law; Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern; The Young Victoria opposite Emily Blunt; Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty; Danny Boyle’s Sunshine; Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana with George Clooney; Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist and Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love.
Lesley Manville (Jocasta)
Award-winning British Actor, Lesley Manville has had an expansive career to date, across both screen and stage. Lesley most recently appeared on our screens in the sixth and final series of Netflix’s critically acclaimed series, The Crown – reprising her role of Princess Margaret. Lesley also starred in Sam Taylor Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic, Back To Black, for StudioCanal. Further upcoming projects include Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, opposite Daniel Craig, Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer for Apple and Cold Storage, alongside Liam Neeson. In addition, Lesley will star in The Critic, alongside Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton.
Lesley recently appeared as the villainous Dahlia Archer in Citadel for Prime Video, alongside Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra. Notable television credits include Mum(RTS Best Female Comedy Performance and two BAFTA nominations for Best Female Performance in a Comedy) and the BBC’s Sherwood, for which Lesley received a Best Supporting Actress nomination at this year’s BAFTA Awards. The series has been announced for a second season, which will air later this year.
Notable roles in film include Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread(Academy Award nomination for Best Performance by An Actress in a Supporting Role, BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress), the titular role as Mrs Harris in Mrs Harris Goes To Parisfor Focus Features (which earnt Lesley a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress) Let Him Go, Ordinary Love, Misbehaviour.
On stage, Lesley’s theatre credits include Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress), Ghosts (Olivier Award for Best Actress and Critics Circle Best Actress Award), Grief (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress), Three Sisters (Clarence Derwent Award) andThe Visit. Further credits include, Six Degrees Of Separationand All About My Mother at the Old Vic Theatre and Some Girls and The Cherry Orchard in the West End.
Samuel Brewer (Teiresias)
Training: BA Acting CDT at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.
Theatre includes: It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure (Vault Festival/Soho Theatre/New Diorama Theatre/Underbelly at Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Soho Playhouse/UK Tour/Southbank Centre); Frankenstein (Parkwood Theatre), Who Plays Who? (Asylum Arts / Barbican Open Labs), CRIPtic Pit Party (Barbican Theatre), Night Out in Nature (Frozen Light), Farenheit 451 (Complicité); The Eyes of the Night (Cervantes Theatre).
Other work includes: Odd & The Frost Giants (Workshop, Unicorn Theatre); Otto Weidt’s Brush and Broom Workshop for the Blind (Workshop, Leeds Playhouse); The Sleeping Sword (Workshop, Watermill Theatre). Samuel co-created It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure (dir. Josh Roche), where at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he was chosen as one of The Fringe Five by The Stage alongside his co-creators & director.
Jim Creighton (Ensemble/Understudy Oedipus & Creon)
Theatre includes: The Suspicions of Mr.Whicher (Watermill Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Good (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Watermill Theatre); The Best Man (The Playhouse Theatre/UK Tour); Macbeth (Theatre Severn); An Enemy of the People (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre Kingston); Journey’s End (Watermill Theatre); The Silver Tassie (National Theatre); Richard III (Nottingham Playhouse); Desire Under the Elms (Lyric Hammersmith); Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket); 1936 (Arcola theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre); Fram (National Theatre); Loot (Tricycle Theatre); The Entertainer (Old Vic) Market Boy (National theatre); On the Middle Day (Old Vic); The Royal Hunt of the Sun (National theatre); Brand (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Merchant of Venice (National Theatre/Royal Shakespeare Company); Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre); Money (National Theatre); Summerfolk (National Theatre); Troilus & Cressida (National Theatre); Peter Pan (National Theatre); An Enemy of the People (National Theatre); Skylight (National Theatre); Three Tall Women (Wyndham’s Theatre).
Television includes: EastEnders; The Curse; The Crown; Bulletproof; The Child in Time; Grantchester; Apple Tree Yard; WPC 56; Doctors; The Hour; Holby City; King Lear; Ashes to Ashes; The Merchant of Venice.
Derek Elroy (Ensemble/Understudy Corin, Teiresias & Driver)
Training: Rose Bruford College.
Theatre includes: One Man Two Governors (The National Theatre/Theatre royal Haymarket/National tour Nick Hytner); Kingston 14 (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Calendar Girls – The Musical (UK tour); Grim Tales (Dukes Play House); Wind in The Willows (Rose Theatre Kingston); Grenfell: Value Engineering scenes from the Inquiry (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); Christmas in the Sunshine (Unicorn Theatre).
Television includes: Hope and Glory (BBC); Fortitude (Tiger Aspect); Casualty (BBC) If… (BBC) Rev (Big Talk Productions); The Bill (London Weekend Television).
Film includes: Breakfast on Pluto (Pluto Films); Bridget Jones Diary (Working Title).
Michael Gould (Creon)
Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse); King Lear; The Writer (Almeida Theatre); Pygmalion (Old Vic); The Audience (West End); A View from the Bridge (West End and Broadway); Hamlet; The Jungle; (Young Vic); Kerry Jackson; All of Us; Anna; Our Class; Women of Troy; Waves; The Seagull; Earthquakes in London; The Oresteia; (National Theatre); The Merchant of Venice; Swive; (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Ugly One (Royal Court); Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre); The Phoenician Women; Othello; The Theban Trilogy (RSC).
Television includes: I Am Maria (Channel 4); There She Goes; Showtrial; You Don’t Know Me; Black Earth Rising (BBC).
Film includes: One Life; Darkest Hour; Rogue One; Undergods; The Duke.
Sara Hazemi (Lichas/Understudy Antigone)
Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard (Donmar Warehouse); King Lear; The Writer (Almeida Theatre); Pygmalion (Old Vic); The Audience (West End); A View from the Bridge (West End and Broadway); Hamlet; The Jungle; (Young Vic); Kerry Jackson; All of Us; Anna; Our Class; Women of Troy; Waves; The Seagull; Earthquakes in London; The Oresteia; (National Theatre); The Merchant of Venice; Swive; (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Ugly One (Royal Court); Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre); The Phoenician Women; Othello; The Theban Trilogy (RSC).
Television includes: I Am Maria (Channel 4); There She Goes; Showtrial; You Don’t Know Me; Black Earth Rising (BBC).
Film includes: One Life; Darkest Hour; Rogue One; Undergods; The Duke.
Gary McDonald (Driver)
Theatre includes: Hardtime Pressure (Royal Court Theatre); Heroes Welcome (Royal Court Theatre); Gregory Motton’s Downfall (Royal Court Theatre); Some Singing Blood (Royal Court Theatre); Been so Long (Royal Court theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Kiln Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (The Tyne Theatre/Bloomsbury Theatre); Macbeth (National Theatre); Black Poppies (National Theatre); Great Big Shame (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Leonardo in Blood Wedding (National Theatre); The Trader in Market Boy (National Theatre); Lobby Hero (Donmar Warehouse/New Ambassadors Theatre); Headmaster Marrow in Choir Boy (Royal Court); Sitting in Limbo (Watford Palace Theatre).
Television includes: London’s Burning pilot; EastEnders; Valentine Falls; Thief Takers; Brothers and Sisters; Dreamteam (Sky One); Numb3rs; Airforce One is Down
Film includes: Shooting Stars; Secrets and Lies; All or Nothing; Until Death; The Shepard; Airforce One is Down; Outpost – Black Sun; Lapse of Honour
Celia Nelson (Ensemble/Understudy Jocasta & Merope)
Training: The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
Theatre includes: Dear Octopus (The National Theatre); The House of Bernarda Alba (The National Theatre); The Doctor (Richmond Theatre/The Duke of York’s Theatre); A Flea in Her Ear (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Sherman Theatre); Big Fella (Dublin Festival); Blithe Spirit (Salisbury Playhouse/Perth Rep); Broken Glass at (Theatre Royal Northampton); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (The Torch/Milford Haven); Hard Times (The Torch/Milford Haven); Having a Ball (Perth Rep); Joking Apart (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); La Vie de Boheme (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Salisbury Playhouse); Loot (UK tour); Private Lives (The Stephen Joseph Theatre); Saints Day (The Orange Tree); Spokesong (Sherman Theatre); Sticks and Stones (The Old Red Lion); Tartuffe (Perth Rep); The Animals (Dublin Festival); The Playboy of the Western World (The Torch/Milford Haven); The Rehearsal (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Turn the Old Year Go (The Torch/Milford Haven); Vanity Fair (Sherman Theatre); Virtual Reality (The Stephen Joseph Theatre).
Television includes: The Bill; Slap; Telephone Detectives.
Radio includes: The Archers (BBC Radio 4).
Bhasker Patel (Corin)
Theatre includes: Silence; The Vote (Donmar Warehouse); Anthony and Cleopatr (Liverpool Playhouse); A Map of the World; Nation; The Royal Hunt of the Sun; Tartuffe; Wicked Yaar; The Magic Carpet; Playing with Fire (Royal National Theatre); Blood; The Great Celestial Cow (Royal Court); Timon of Athens (Young Vic); The Comedy of Errors (Bolton Octogan); A Passage to India (Farnham Redgrave); Passing (Park Theatre); MacBeth (New York International Theatre Festival).
Television includes: Emmerdale; Coronation Street; Dirty Filthy Love; Jewel in the Crown; Crown Court; A&E (ITV/Granada); Doctor Who; The Garden; Spooks; Holby City; My Family; Murder in Mind; Only Fools & Horses; Birds of a Feather; Casualty; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Moving On (BBC), Brookside (Channel 4).
Film includes: Drachenfutter (CIVIS Award – Best Actor/ Germany); Snowden; Octopussy; Goldeneye; Being Human with Robin Williams; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; Kidulthood; Anuvahood Someotherhood; Hanif Kureishi’s My Son the Fanatic; Wild West; Thunderbirds (Working Title); Twin Town; My Beautiful Launderette.
Jake Rory (Ensemble/Understudy Polyneices, Eteocles & Lichas)
Training: Arts Educationals’ (BA Acting).
Credits while training include: Macbeth in Macbeth; Edward in The Voysey Inheritance; Val in Orpheus Descending; Lopakin in The Cherry Orchard; Captain Chen in Qibla.
Phia Saban (Antigone)
Training: Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Credits while training include: Amanda in Private Lives;Nina in The Seagull; Ollie in Pomona;W in Cock; Cassandra in The Trojan Women;Iago in Othello; The Girl in The Wheel; Antigone in Antigone.
Television includes: Helaena Targaryen in House of the Dragon (HBO); Aelfwynn in The Last Kingdom (Netflix/Carnival Films).
Jordan Scowen (Eteocles)
Training: LAMDA.
Theatre includes: Darkin in The History Boys (Wolverhampton Grand Theatre).
Television includes: Robert Tipton in Belgravia: The Next Chapter (MGM/Carnivals drama); Sgt John Shaffer in Masters of the Air (Apple TV+); Ringo Starr in Urban Myths (SKY); Home (Channel 4).
Film includes: Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (BBC Films).
June Watson (Merope)
Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard; A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Donmar Warehouse); Sea Creatures; Uncle Vanya; Good People (Hamsptead Theatre); As You Like It (@Sohoplace); After Life; The Welkin; John; Scenes from the Big Picture; The Good Hope; Our Lady of Sligo; Cardiff East; The Prince’s Play; Le Cid; Rutherford and Son; Machinal; Billy Liar; Whale; Garden of England; As I Lay Dying; The Beggar’s Opera; Lark Rise; The Passion; The World Turned Upside Down; The Long Voyage Home; Il Campiello; State of the Revolution (National Theatre); Road; Kosher Harry; Beside Herself; Saved; Small Change; Life Price; Glasshouses (Royal Court Theatre); Escaped Alone (Royal Court Theatre/ BAM/ UK tour); The Father; Mrs Lowry and Son (Trafalgar Studios); The Cripple of Inishmaan – Clarence Derwent Award (Noël Coward Theatre/ Broadway); Before the Party, Hippolytus (Almeida Theatre); Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville Theatre); Calendar Girls (UK tour); Another Door Closed (Theatre Royal Bath); Aristo (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Children’s Hour (Royal Exchange Theatre); Smaller; Middle Aged Spread (Lyric West End); Mary Stuart (Apollo Theatre); Talking to Terrorists; Sliding with Suzanne (Royal Court/Out of Joint); Romeo & Juliet (RSC); Streetcar to Tennessee (Young Vic); Blue Heart (Out of Joint); Coriolanus; The Winter’s Tale; The Wars of the Roses (English Shakespeare Company); Ballroom (Theatre Royal Stratford East) and Waiting for the Parade (Lyric Hammersmith).
Television includes: Whitstable Pearl; The Cockfields; All Creatures Great and Small; Casualty; The Midnight Gang; Chernobyl; Call the Midwife; To Walk Invisible; Agatha Raisin; Thirteen; Unforgotten; A Song for Jenny; Holby City; The Café; Doctors; Wallander; Law and Order UK; Coming Up; Above Suspicion; New Tricks; Hancock and Joan; The Bill; The Street; Billy Goat’s Gruff; City of Vice; Clapham Junction; Wedding Belles; The Time of Your Life; Strictly Confidential; In Denial of Murder; The Key; Willian & Mary; Midsomer Murders; Brotherly Love; Thursday 12th; In A Land of Plenty; Where the Heart Is; Berkeley Square; Kavanagh QC and A Mug’s Game.
Film includes: Your Christmas or Mine; The Bike Thief; The Death of Stalin; The Lady in the Van; Ghost Hunter; 102 Dalmatians; Highlander IV: Endgame; The Last Yellow; The Knowledge and Bloody Kids.
James Wilbraham (Polyneices)
Training: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Credits whilst training includes: Den in The Electric; Sebastien in All That I AM; Feste/Student in Twelfth Night Remembered; Angelo in Measure for Measure; Captain Brice in Arcadia.
Theatre includes: Ikaria (UK Tour).
Television includes: Tom Jones (Mammoth Screen for ITV); SAS Rogue Heroes (Kudos); In My Skin (Expectation for BBC); Ordinary Lies (BBC); Pobol y Cwm (BBC Wales); Gwaith/Cartref (Fiction Factory).
CREATIVE BIOGRAPHIES
Robert Icke is an award-winning writer and director, working in theatre and on screen. His recent production of Player Kings, starring Ian McKellen, opened at the Noël Coward Theatre before a national tour. His other recent work includes Judas, Children of Nora, and Oedipus at International Theater Amsterdam, where until he was the inaugural Ibsen Artist in Residence. His adaptation of Animal Farm played an extensive national tour in 2022 and is slated for a London transfer. His monologue condensation of Enemy of the People starred Ann Dowd at Park Avenue Armory and was one of the first new pieces of theatre to play in New York post the pandemic shutdown.
In six years at the Almeida, he made eight productions; five transferred to the West End, and four to New York. These included his adaptations of The Wild Duck, Mary Stuart (also West End and National tour), Uncle Vanya, Oresteia (also West End; Schauspiel Stuttgart; Park Avenue Armory), and 1984 (co-created with Duncan Macmillan, also Broadway; West End; national and international tours). As a director, his productions included Hamlet starring Andrew Scott (also West End; Park Avenue Armory; and broadcast on BBC2); The Fever and Mr Burns. His play The Doctor, which played successful runs at Park Avenue Armory in 2023 and in the West End in 2022, remains in repertoire at both the Burgtheater in Vienna and Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, as well as in numerous new productions across the globe.
His awards include two Evening Standard ‘Best Director’ Awards; the Critics’ Circle Award, the Kurt Hübner Award (for his debut production in Germany); and the Olivier Award for ‘Best Director’, of which he was the youngest ever winner. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Hildegard Bechtler (Set Design)
Hildegard Bechtler is an award-winning designer based in London and working internationally. Work in theatre includes designs for the Almeida Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Old Vic, Donmar, on Broadway and extensively in the West End including Top Hat, Oresteia (both Olivier-nominated for best set design), Mary Stuart, Hamlet, Consent, Arcadia and The Crucible. Credits for the National Theatre include Antony and Cleopatra, Hansard, After the Dance (Olivier Award) and Iphigenia at Aulis (Evening Standard Award nomination). Credits for the Royal Court include The Seagull, Krapp’s Last Tape, My Name Is Rachel Corrie. Recent work includes The Doctor, Hamlet/Oresteia and Enemy of the People at the Park Avenue Armory; Four Quartets in the West End; Judas, Nora and Oedipus for Internationaal Theatre Amsterdam, The Doctor in the West End, at the Burgtheater Vienna and at the Adelaide Festival and Iwanow at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. Her many designs in opera and ballet include productions for English National Opera, La Scala Milan, Glyndebourne and the world premieres of The Cellist for the Royal Ballet and Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel at the Salzburger Festspiele, the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House. She won the Australian Green Room Award for Best Opera Design for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Sydney Opera House. Upcoming work includes a world premiere for Zurich Ballet; and Dr Strangelove in the West End.
Wojciech Dziedzic (Costume Design)
Wojciech Dziedzic designs costumes for opera, theatre and musical and leads, in parallel, a career of a stylist. He studied fashion design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, institutions in which he later taught. Between 2010 and 2019, he directed the fashion department of the Poznań School of Design in Poland.
Recent credits include Simon Boccanegra (New National Theatre in Tokyo); Die Blume von Hawaii (Theater Magdeburg); Shirine (Opéra de Lyon); Acis and Galatea (Concertgebouw Amsterdam); Keine Stille außer der des Windes (Nationaltheater Mannheim); Cardillac (Polish National Opera); Anatomy of a Suicide (Berliner Ensemble); Apocalypse Arabe (Aix en Provence); Ivanov (Schauspiel Stuttgart); Les Indes Galantes (Opéra national de Paris); Aus Licht (Dutch National Opera); Tristan and Isolde, Penthesilea (La Monnaie Brussels); The Crucible (Theatre Basel, Dir. Robert Icke); Eugene Onegin, Il Serpente di Bronzo and A Wintery Spring (Oper Frankfurt); Invasion-Explosion (Holland Festival); Shirine, GerMANIA, Macbeth (Opéra de Lyon); The Glass Menagerie (Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Broadway); Nora, A Sort of Hades, Blindeness, Phaedra, Crave, Caligula (Theater Utrecht); Fidelio (Erl Festival); Boris Godunov, the Conquest of Mexico, Bomarzo, Lohengrin, El Público, Brokeback Mountain (Teatro Real Madrid); Oedipus, From The Life of The Marionettes, The Maids, Mary Stuart, Danton’s Death, Nora, Angels in America, And never we’ll be parted, The Miser, All my Sons (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam); The Crucible (Broadway, Dir. Ivo van Hove); Cries and Whispers (BAM); Mazeppa (Komische Oper Berlin).
Natasha Chivers (Lighting Design)
Natasha’s awards and nominations includes: Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play, and nominated for an Olivier and Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play for Prima Facie.She won the Olivier Award for best lighting for Sunday in the Park with George. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for 1984 and for an Olivier Award for Oresteia
Her extensive work in theatre includes: The Hills of California (West End); Prima Facie (Harold Pinter Theatre/ Broadway); SYLVIA, The American Clock (Old Vic); Peaky Blinders (Rambert); Doctor, Hamlet, Oresteia (Almeida/ West End/ Park Avenue Armory); Enemy of People (Park Avenue Armory, New York); Judas (Internationaal Theater, Amsterdam) Mates in Chelsea, Shoe Lady, White Pearl, The Cane, Bad Roads, Mistress Contract, Fireworks (Royal Court); Ivanov (Staatstheater, Stuttgart); ; Kan Ya Ma Kan (Riyadh); Message in a Bottle, Electric Hotel, Gravity Fatigue (Sadler’s Wells); Drive and Live: La Bohème (ENO); The 1984 (Playhouse Theatre/ Broadway); The Antipodes, Sunset at the Villa Thalia, Statement of Regret (National Theatre); The Deep Blue Sea, The Chalk Garden, The House They Grew Up In (Chichester Festival Theatre); We Are Here (La Mama, New York); Allelujah! (Bridge Theatre); The Duchess of Malfi (RSC); Belleville (Donmar); Electric Counterpoint, Strapless (Royal Ballet); Green Snake (National Theatre of China); Macbeth (Broadway); Sunday in the Park with George (Wyndham’s)
Tom Gibbons (Sound Design)
Recent work includes Dear England (National Theatre, West End); Dead Man Walking (The Metropolitan Opera); Here We Are (The Shed, New York); Jesus Christ Superstar (DeLaMar Theatre, Amsterdam); Best of Enemies (Noël Coward Theatre, Young Vic); Grey House (Lyceum Theatre, Broadway); Good (West End); Hamlet, Oresteia, The Doctor (Park Avenue Armory, Almeida Theatre, West End); Animal Farm (UK tour); West Side Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway); Cabaret (Göteborg Opera); Judas, Oedipus, The Doctor (International Theatre Amsterdam); The Antipodes, Home, I’m Darling, People, Places and Things (Winner for Best Sound Design, Olivier Awards 2016), Hedda Gabler, Sunset At The Villa Thalia, The Red Barn (National Theatre/West End); All About Eve (West End); Our Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Doctor, Wild Duck (Almeida/West End); Madness of King George III (Nottingham Playhouse); Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); Mr Burns, 1984 (Almeida/West End/Broadway); Fanny and Alexander, The Lorax (Old Vic); A View From the Bridge (Young Vic/West End/Broadway); Obsession (International Theatre Amsterdam, Barbican); Life of Galileo, Happy Days, A Season in the Congo, Disco Pigs (Young Vic); Les Miserables (Wermland Opera, Sweden); The Crucible (Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway); Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Moderate Soprano, Elephants (Hampstead Theatre); White Devil, As You Like It (RSC); Translations, Plenty (Sheffield Crucible); After Life, The Absence of War, Romeo & Juliet (Headlong); Lion Boy (Complicite); Venus in Fur (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Henry IV, Julius Caesar (Donmar, St Ann’s Brooklyn); The End of History, Pah La, The Woods, Love Love Love, (Royal Court).
Tal Yarden (Video Design)
London credits: Get Up, Stand Up, Anna X, My Brilliant Friend, Hamlet, Antigone, The Damned, Kings of War, The Fountainhead, Roman Tragedies, Lazarus. Broadway credits: Indecent, Network, The Waverly Gallery, Sunday in the Park with George, The Crucible; Off-Broadway & Regional credits: Becky Nurse of Salem, Grey Rock, King Lear, Distracted, Liberty City, The Misanthrope; A Walk on the Moon, Ocean Filibuster, Passing Strange, Frost/Nixon; Opera credits: Exterminating Angel, Between Worlds, Mahagonny, Salome, Brokeback Mountain, Macbeth. Video: Pat McGrath, Rick Owens, Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg, James Brown, Patti Smith; Awards: Molière, Lucille Lortel, Noinations: Tony, Drama Desk, Hewes, Outer Critic.
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LISTINGS
OEDIPUS
Wyndham’s Theatre
4 October 2024 – 4 January 2025
Opening Night: Tuesday 15 October, 7pm
Tickets from £25
Box Office: Oedipustheplay.com